From: catwheezel@operamail.com 
  
 On 2010-07-27, A B  wrote: 
 > I find it annoying too, the way all the web forums seem to be trying to 
 turn 
 > themselves into "social networking" sites.  Whatever was wrong with just 
 > reading what people said? 
 > 
 > Since you're here, do you happen to know what's the current status of 
 > news.answers and the other *.answers groups?  I do the FAQs for 
 > alt.astrology, and I'd like them to be included in *.answers.  I've 
 > submitted them to news.answers and alt.answers several times, following the 
 > most recent submission guidelines I can find, but I haven't had any 
 > response.  An alt.astrology user told me that the last news.answers 
 > moderator had died, but I don't know whether he was serious or not.  (I've 
 > asked this in n.g.q before, but nobody happened to be there.) 
 > 
 > If not, can you think of any other group that might answer this question? 
  
 You could try news.groups or news.admin.technical - there is still a 'big 
 eight management', and they're likely to look there. 
  
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